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sums

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sums.

Editorial note

Being able to reliably convert large sums of money into substantially larger sums of money is an extremely high value talent.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sums gathered in one view.

noun

A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

noun

A quantity of money.

noun

A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sums.

noun

A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

noun

A quantity of money.

noun

A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.

noun

A central idea or point; gist.

Example sentences

1

Being able to reliably convert large sums of money into substantially larger sums of money is an extremely high value talent.

2

The level of detail here is great and really sums up 10 years of a lot of hard-earned findings.

3

They have a lot of really good ones that you'd normally pay large sums for.

4

I've been reading his writings for a while and this sums up very nicely my skepticism of his ideas.

5

The result is that we have to pay both sides: pay the government, then pay (gargantuan sums!) out of our own pockets for things like tuition and health care.

6

They are very interactive but at the end of the day they are a document that sums up either my personal or professional life.

7

Get the sums right and you can create a profitable asset and accrue significant capital gains, all the while mandated-inflation is eating away at your LTV ratio.

8

I bet large sums of them would pay $10 to have at least some level of care or information about what to do next.

9

The owners successfully sold two businesses for large sums and have financial resources most of us can only dream of having so they are not afraid to pay for quality.

10

And for the people staying behind, you get to pay exorbitant sums of money so that people other than you get to survive an asteroid impact in the next few million years.

11

Wave, Buzz, Orkut, G+ > For all that success, the Internet giant just couldn't seem to figure out social I think this lines really sums it.

12

If you have a difference function for each axis that yields a number from 0-1 for comfortable, 1-10 for tolerable, 10-100 for survivable, and 100+ for lethal, then you can take the square root of the sums of the difference functions for the overall index.

Quote examples

1

Lewis sums up my feelings about "being childish": Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

2

That’s why it’s sacrifice." I think that sums it up well.

3

With this and your comment about "a few government sanctioned pg's" I see that you put a lot more trust in disinterested experts and bureaucrats to hand out large sums of money than I do.

4

I think this quote sums things up "Writing is nature's way of telling us how lousy our thinking is" Leslie Lamport Lamport is a renowned distributed systems researcher, inventor of Paxos, and creator of LaTeX.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use sums in a sentence?

Being able to reliably convert large sums of money into substantially larger sums of money is an extremely high value talent.

What does sums mean?

A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

What part of speech is sums?

sums is commonly used as noun.